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Ultimate Keno

Ultimate Keno, whose appearance is modeled on a virtual scratch-it lottery ticket, is an Internet casino game developed by Realistic Games, a Berkshire-based games developer. Ultimate Keno is listed as an arcade game.

There are many other Keno-branded online casino games, including the 40-ball Klub Keno, the the 80-ball Instant Keno, the 80-ball Extra Keno, and the 80-ball Traditional Keno.

Although “Keno” is a noun that has been synonymous with American English since circa 1800, it is actually a corruption of a foreign word; “Keno” was originally either the French word “quine”—it means five, esp. winning combinations—or Latin word “quini”—it is a prefix like in the word quintet.

Cheung Leung, a Chinese ruler during the war-plagued Han Empire, came up with an ancient version of keno so as to fund costly strategic defense operations without inconveniencing his people with more taxes.

The Great Wall was reportedly funded by income from keno. Keno found its way to the West—thanks to U.S.-bound Chinese immigrants who were eying the railroad jobs.

Although Leung’s variant boasted of 120 suchlike characters, most present-day keno versions have relatively lesser balls, especially either 40 balls or 80 balls. Contextually, Ultimate Keno has number one to number eighty, wherein the bettor selects at least one number and up to fifteen numbers.

Not sure if Cheung would consider this the ULTIMATE keno game or not but it is a pretty fun one.

Ultimate Keno: Game Review

To play Ultimate Keno, the system might first prompt you to either turn off or turn on the sound. Secondly, the player chooses the preferred numbers in the virtual keno board by clicking on the numbers (to deselect, you press twice on the wrongly chosen number or click on the “clear” button at the bottom left corner). Alternatively, there is a version of Ultimate Keno that allows the bettor to let the system choose the numbers for him or her by pressing an “Autopick” button. After selecting the numbers, the player then presses the “Play” icon. In some versions, there is a pipe-shaped mixer at the right side that draws the selected balls at random.

Here is a screenshot of Ultimate Keno in action:

To set the bet size, you click on either down or up buttons, which are near the top right side, accordingly. Players can bet $0.25, $0.50, $0.75, $1.00, $2.00, $3.00, $5.00, and $10.00.

Do you want Ultimate Keno to play fast? If yes, you have to click on the “Turbo on”. If no, click it again and it will change to “Turbo off”. The paytable, which is at the left side and is wedged between “Play” and the buttons for increasing or decreasing the bets, pays as much as 10,000 for fifteen matching numbers if the bet is $1. Other payouts include: 5,000 for 14 matches, 3,000 for 13 matches, 1,500 for 12 matches, 500 for 11 matches, 50 for 10 matches, 25 for 9 matches, 8 for 8 matches, and 5 for 7 matches, 3 for 6 matched, and 2 for 5 matches. Betting $10 pays ten times the aforementioned figures.

Ultimate Keno: Strategy

Naturally, keno games such as Ultimate Keno are games of chance; strategies might be fruitless because the eighty ball numbers have an eightieth possibility of matching up with those drawn. The return to player rate of Ultimate Keno is between 65 per cent and 80 per cent. Ordinarily, the house edge of most Keno variants, including Ultimate Keno, is 20 per cent to 35 per cent.